The inaugural "Celebrate Chemical Engineering" event organised by Dr Lev Sarkisov and hosted at the School of Engineering took place on Friday 13 March.
Professor Khellil Sefiane initiated a project with his colleagues at Northumbria University to develop an innovative concept to harvest energy from carbon dioxide for generating power using the Leidenfrost phenomenon.
Professors Hugh McCann and Alistair Borthwick have been named as Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows, which reflects both their excellent and active careers and a clear and continuing connection with Scotland.
Professor Jason Reese has been awarded the 2015 Lord Kelvin Medal by the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his "outstanding contribution to the field of Engineering both within the UK and internationally and for [his] commitment to the public engagement of science".
David Gow, a former School of Engineering student, is to have his pionnering invention featured on a new set of Royal Mail stamps celebrating Inventive Britain.
The Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Challenge is an open yearly competition organized by the Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum (CoMSEF) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the American Chemical Society (ACS), Army Research Lab, Boeing, National Inst
The Construction & Buildings Materials Journal, which Professor Mike Forde is editor-in-chief of, was mentioned in the White House Blog on 6th February 2015.
The Golden State Warriors basketball team will open a new high-tech sports and entertainment complex in San Francisco in 2018, containting Li-Fi technology that was developed by Professor Harald Haas.
Applications for the L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland Fellowships For Women In Science will open on 2nd February 2015. Four outstanding female post-doctoral scientists in the UK or Ireland will be granted a fellowship worth £15,000[1] each.
Research into drug discovery and healthcare will be accelerated with a multi-million pound investment.
Scientists are to receive £11.4 million over five years for a new centre to advance research in synthetic biology – the design of biological organisms with new or improved functions.